Wherever he goes these days, Dodgers outfielder Andre Ethier runs into friends, neighbors and total strangers who want to talk. ''I can't tell you how many people from the regular haunts I go through LA now - my restaurants, my places I get coffee that know me that for the last five, six years in the neighborhood I live in - are always, 'Hey, when are we going to win the World Series? It's been a while since Kirk Gibson helped launch Los Angeles to the 1988 crown, the last one the Dodgers won.